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Metaphor is a means of conceptualizing the world around us and an anthropological universal of expression wich helps us apprehend time in terms of space. The purpose of this paper is thus to analyse a series of time metaphors in Catalan, and more particularly the vado + infinitive construction, by showing the relationship between the conceptualizing system of Catalan and that Of other languages, such as English, German, Italian, Portuguese, French, and, especially, Occitan and Spanish.

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Catalan costumisme (literary genre of local customs and manners) is an attempt, historically delimited, to understand life and its agents from ancient, archetypal patterns. Phraseology and metaphors exemplify the literary manisfestations of costumisme. In this framework, novels by Rusiñol and Vayreda are studied.

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This paper deals with the subject of nominal(ized) style in contrast with clausal style. Expressing processes and qualities as entities involves a certain kind of metaphor –a grammatical metaphor, in the sense systemic functional linguistic conceives it. Furthermore this device is useful to improve the development of the thematic progression of a text. Nominalized style is characteristic of scientific academic discourse, but it widely spreads along other types of discourse, implying sometimes an effect of abstraction and opacity unsuitable for other discursive purposes and specially for literary genres.